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DIAMOND: Adding patiromer helps optimize HF meds, foils hyperkalemia
Hyperkalemia is no reason for suboptimal guideline-directed heart failure medical therapy, given availability of at least one potassium-binding...
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New HF guidelines feature ‘quad’ therapy, tweaked terminology
They include new generalist-friendly labels for the traditional but obscurely named four stages of HF that, it is hoped, will have wider reach and...
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VALOR-HCM: Novel drug may delay, avert invasive therapy in OHCM
Mavacamten looks promising as a medical alternative to highly invasive septal reduction therapy for patients with obstructive hypertrophic...
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Calcium scores predict sudden-death risk in preclinical CAD
The findings strengthen the case for initial CAC imaging as a gatekeeper to further testing in some primary-prevention patients, researchers say...
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Hybrid ACC 2022 resurrects the live scientific session
The ACC offers a traditional in-person meeting spanning all of cardiology paired with what could be a lasting legacy of the pandemic, a robust,...
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Death of pig heart transplant patient is more a beginning than an end
The landmark case will have much to teach; still, it “turns back the clock” to a time when immunosuppression was especially intense “because we...
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DISCHARGE: CTA shows safety edge versus cath in intermediate-risk stable chest pain
CTA ‘is a safe alternative to cardiac catheterization for patients with suspected CAD,’ new research suggests.
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How Lp(a) can help improve ASCVD risk assessment
Calcium scores and lipoprotein(a) levels predict 10-year risk independent of each other, and together could swing shared decision-making about...
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FDA okays empagliflozin for HF regardless of ejection fraction
The expanded indication for the SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin (Jardiance) now includes heart failure with mid-range or preserved left ventricular...
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USPSTF tweaks primary prevention statin recommendations in new draft guidance
The task force concluded “with moderate certainty” that a statin prescription will clinically benefit adults 40-75 years without CVD but with at...
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Hong Kong, U.S., Israeli data illuminate COVID vaccine myocarditis
Prevalences, nuances of presentation, and likely clinical course of myocarditis after use of some vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are in sharper view...
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Celebratory binge drinking a potential trigger for new-onset AFib
Certain holidays and mega sports events were linked to spikes in alcohol use and, separately, to acute bouts of new atrial fib that could...
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What does a pig-to-human heart transplant mean for medicine?
It was brilliant and courageous, ‘but it’s always in the implementation that we have to hold our breath,’ says a prominent specialist.
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Pig heart successfully transplanted to man
It’s the first successful transplant of a genetically modified animal heart into a human, in this case a 57-year-old man with no other treatment...
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COVID-vaccine myocarditis: Rare, mild, and usually in young men
Should myocarditis be a concern as mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are authorized in ever-younger age groups?